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Author:

Rizzo, Adriana

Title:

OCEAN ECOSYSTEM TRANSFORMATION CAUSED BY RAPID WARMING AND SEA LEVEL RISE IN THE PLEISTOCENE CARIACO BASIN (MIS 9-7)

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

paleoceanography
coccolithophores
phytoplankton
paleoecology
organic geochemistry
Pleistocene
Climate Change
harmful algae bloom
productivity
sea level
ITCZ
Cariaco Basin
micropaleontology
UK37
nutrients
Emiliania huxleyi
Florisphaera profunda
dinoflagellates
Margalef's Mandala
MIS 8

File:

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Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member

Author:

Harris, Gabriella

Title:

EOCENE FOSSILS OF ARAUCARIA SECT. EUTACTA FROM PATAGONIA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR FLORAL TURNOVER DURING THE INITIAL ISOLATION OF SOUTH AMERICA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Araucaria
Araucariaceae
conifers
EECO
Eocene
Laguna del Hunco
Patagonia
rainforest
Río Pichileufú
total evidence phylogeny

File:

Download Rossetto_Harris_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Member

Author:

Reinhold, Matthew

Title:

CONSTRAINTS ON EARTH'S THERMAL EVOLUTION FROM THE HEAVY NOBLE GAS CONTENT OF THE MANTLE

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Thermal evolution
Subduction
Subduction thermal regime
Earth history
Plate tectonics
Mantle

File:

Download Matthew_Reinhold_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradford James Foley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew James Smye, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member

Author:

Stiles, Elena

Title:

PLANT EXTINCTION AND RECOVERY DYNAMICS ACROSS THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE TRANSITION IN SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Extinction
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Macrofloras
Recovery
Southern Hemisphere
Patagonia
K-Pg
Paleobotany

File:

Download Thesis_Stiles_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member

Author:

Ji, Aoshuang

Title:

HOW DO THE GAS HYDRATE SATURATION AND HYDRATE MORPHOLOGY CONTROL SEISMIC ATTENUATION: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SOUTH HYDRATE RIDGE

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Seismic attenuation; Hydrate saturation; Hydrate morphology; Rock physics modeling

File:

Download MasterThesis_AoshuangJi1111.pdf

Committee Members:

Tieyuan Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stanton, Chloe

Title:

Documentation of novel diatom-associated calcification in a lacustrine whiting event at Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

calcium carbonate
biomineralization
diatom
cyanobacteria
whiting
carbonate muds

File:

Download Stanton_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bressers, Cathleen

Title:

Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Northern East African Plateau from P- and S-wave Body-wave Tomography

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

tomography
East African Rift System
AfricaArray
Uganda
Upper Mantle
VanDecar
lithosphere
multi-channel cross correlation
Kenya Rift
East African Plateau

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member

Author:

Carte, Jared L

Title:

Uranium-series Geochemistry in Residual Soils: Examples from Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Uranium
Weathering
Geochemistry
Soils
Soil Uranium

File:

Download Jared_Carte_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew S Fantle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Herschel Adams Elliott, Committee Member

Author:

Wyatt, Damaris Christine

Title:

Constraints from Monazite Petrochronology on the Assembly of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Lower Crust
Metamorphism
Lower Continental Crust
Monazite
U-Pb Geochronology
Metamorphic Petrology
Tectonics
Trace Element Geochemistry
Thermobarometry
Pseudosection Modeling

File:

Download wyatt_ms_2019____.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew James Smye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Silverhart, Perri

Title:

Land use versus climate controls on hillslope erosion at a farmed headwater catchment in central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

erosion
agricultural erosion
critical zone
czo
cesium-137

File:

Download silverhart_thesis_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Alexander Dibiase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ma, Lisa

Title:

P-wave Velocity Structure of the Shale Hills Watershed, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

critical zone observatory
critical zone
czo
Susquehanna
Shale Hills
P-wave
velocity structure
shallow subsurface
geophysics
tomography
velocity
2D
two dimensional
seismic refraction
FAST
regolith
sonic logs
boreholes
frost-cracking
dissolution of chlorite
pyrite oxidation

File:

Download LM_ms_thesis_0914.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Crist, Clarissa

Title:

Exploring how diagenetic alteration of marine carbonate sediments is accommodated in heterogeneous assemblages

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

carbonate diagenesis
marine biogeochemistry
carbonate proxy archives

File:

Download CCrist_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew S Fantle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Forgeng, Michael

Title:

Investigating nitrate transport and denitrification in hilly terrain from the scale of a single farm field to a HUC-10 watershed

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Agriculture
hydrology
hydrogeology
nutrient pollution
geochemistry
hydrogeochemistry

File:

Download Forgeng_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan M Duncan, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Kimberly Lau, Committee Member

Author:

Garcia, Victor

Title:

Viscous Magma Injection into the Shallow Plumbing System of Telica Volcano, Nicaragua: Evidence from the 2011 and 2015 Eruptions

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

volcanology
telica nicaragua
viscous magma
magmatic plumbing system

File:

Download Garcia_Victor_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Maureen Feineman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member

Author:

Santos, Dorivaldo

Title:

Focused Flow Along Faults and Heat Advection in the Northern Hikurangi Accretionary Prism

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Hikurangi
Numerical Model
Heat Flow
Fluid Flow
Faults

File:

Download Thesis_Santos-converted.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Melton, Sierra

Title:

Iceberg Calving and Meltwater Drainage at the Ice-Cliff Terminus of Helheim Glacier, Greenland

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Greenland
Glaciology
Iceberg
Glacier
Meltwater
Glacial Hydrology
Remote Sensing
Satellite Imagery
Climate Change
Iceberg Calving
Helheim Glacier

File:

Download SierraMelton_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Byron Richard Parizek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Oborn, Collin

Title:

Evolution of the Tungnárhraun mafic lavas: Insights into magma storage and ascent beneath Barðarbunga volcanic system

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Iceland
Geochemistry
Petrology
PUBs
Bárðarbunga
Tungnárhraun

File:

Download Oborn_MS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Tanya Furman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Andrew James Smye, Committee Member
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Leeburn, Jeffrey

Title:

Magma-Faulting Interactions during the June, 2007 East Rift Zone Eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Kilauea
volcano
Coulomb
volcanic stress
decollement
Hawaii
InSAR
offset tracking
remote sensing
volcanic deformation
inversion
geodetic modeling
rift zone
stress changes
neighbourhood algorithm
intrusion
dike

File:

Download jeffleeburn_MSthesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christelle Wauthier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reinthal, Mary

Title:

Utilizing 234U/238U and 87Sr/86Sr to understand the provenance and fate of uranium in Shaver’s Creek, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

radiogenic isotopes
uranium
fertilizer
agronomy
CZO
critical zone
Shale Hills
Cole Farm
hydrogeology

File:

Download Thesis_Reinthal.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Lin Ma, Special Signatory
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair